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Re: VPATH?
- From: Harlan Stenn <Harlan dot Stenn at pfcs dot com>
- To: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at src dot lip6 dot fr>
- Cc: Harlan Stenn <hstenn at cisco dot com>, automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:43:26 -0500
- Subject: Re: VPATH?
Thanks!
I'll do what I can. One problem is that this works for me in 108 other
Makefile.am's, and every once in a while one of them stops working and I
have to say where each source file lives.
It is strange...
H
--
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> >>> "Harlan" == Harlan Stenn <hstenn@cisco.com> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> Harlan> A subdir that had:
>
> Harlan> Makefile.am:
> Harlan> VPATH=@srcdir@:@srcdir@/../common
>
> Harlan> bin_PROGRAMS= foo
>
> Harlan> and no other files in it used to automatically get foo.c from
> Harlan> srcdir/../common/foo.c, and with automake-1.8 it no longer does.
>
> I'm afraid this worked for me, furthermore I don't have the
> slightest idea what change in Automake could possibly be related
> to this behavior.
>
> Could you send a complete test case with full instructions to
> reproduce the problem?
> --
> Alexandre Duret-Lutz
>
>